Spell templates themselves are OGC by virtue of Dragon magazine. The specific templates in MCAU are probably not, or maybe they are...but the idea definately is.
Oh, I don't see how the concept could *not* be available for reuse/building on. It seems to me that the whole OGC thing builds upon the notions of copyright, and ideas aren't protected to begin with (specifically, you couldn't have authority to contribute an idea, so it can't be OGC, and it can't be copyright, patented, or trademarked, so the only way the license could even effect ideas is if they could somehow be declared PI--it doesn't look like that's possible, nor like the license claims it's possible, and, in any case, Monte Cook has'nt declared this info PI).
However, it still doesn't make it easier to "forget" what i know of AU when doing my own work. Plus, where's the fine line between comparing my work to his to see if mine seems balanced, and actually borrowing elements of his? [Though, imho, if i did so i'd be well within the bounds of fair use, or even completely outside the realm of copyright, so it doesn't matter if it's OGC.]
So, there was an article with spell templates in it in Dragon, and they were declared OGC and a copy of the WOTC OGL with proper s.15 was included? Which issue was it? Actually, forget that--it's not like i'm gonna go out and buy it. Care to share how they were implemented in that article?
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